N5300.H68

Includes bibliographical references (p. 950-959) and index

- Chapter One: Before history - The Art of hunters The Arty of Farmers - Chapter Two: the Early Civilizations - Mesopotamia - The indus vally - Ancient Eygpt - The Aegean - China - Chapter Three: Developments across the continents - The hittites - The new kingdom on ancient Eygpt - Assyria and babylon - Iran - Zhou China - The Americas - Africa: nok culture - Chapter Four: The Greeks and their neighbours - Archaic Greece - The Classical Period - Naturalism and Idealization - Barbarian Alternatives: Scythians and the animal style - Haltstatt and la tene - Ibreria and sardinia - The etruscans - Chapter Five: Hellenistic and Roman Art - The Hellenistic period - Hellenistic and Roman Painting and Mosaics - Roman Architecture - Roman Sculpture - Late Antique Art - Part Two: Art and the world Religions - Chapter Six: Buddhism, Hinduism and the arts of South and East Asia - Buddhist art India - Hindu Art in India - Buddhist and hindu Art on the south - East Asian Mainland - Confucian, daoist and buddhist art in China - Shinto and Buddhist Art in Japan - Chapter Seven: Early Chistian and byzantine Art - The Begining of christian Art - Byzantine Art - Christian Art in the Northern Europe - Chapter Eight: Early Islamis Art - Umayyad Art and Architecture - Abbasid Art and Architecture - Islamic Spain - Samanid and seljuk Archituecture - Islamic Decoration - Part Three: Sacred and Secular Art - Chapter Nine: Medieval Christendom - Ottonoan - Romanesque architecture Italy - Romanesque Art and Architecture in Northern Europe - Gothic Art and Architecture - Secular and International Gothic - Chapter Ten: The fifteenth Century in Europe - The Beginnings of the Italian Renaissance - A New style in Flander - Architecture in Itlay - Italian Painting and the Church - Secular Painting - The Venetian synthesis - International Humanism - Chapter Eleven: The Sixteenth Century in Europe - Reform and early sixteenth- century art in the North - The High Renaissance in Italy - The Venetian High renaissance - Mannerism and Mannerisms - Chapter Twelve: The Americas, Africa And Asia - Masoamerica and peru - Africa - The Islamic world - China - Japan- Kamakura to edo - Chapter Thirteen: The Seventeenth Century in Europe - New beginnings in Rome - Baroque Art and architecture - Dutch Painting - England and France - Chapter Fourteen: Enlightenment and Liberty - French Rococo Art - The Rococo in Germany and Italy - English sense and sensibility - Neoclassicism, or the "true style" - Part Four: The Making of the Modern World - Chapter Fifteen: romanticism to Realism - Romanticism - Romanticism and Philosophy - Romantic landscape Painting - Photography - In which Style should we Build? - Historicism and realism - Photography comes of age - Chapter Sixteen: Eastern Traditions - Qing- Dynasty China - Japan in the Edo Period - Chapter Seventeen: impressionism to Post- Imressionism - Impressionism - Japonism - Neo- Imressionism - Symbolism - Ar Nouveau and the new Architecture - Cezanne - Chapter Eighteen: Indigenous Arts of Africa, the Americas Australia and Oceania - Oceania - Australia - The North American North - West Coast - The Plains and the Arid Lands of North Amirica - Africa - Part Five: Twentieth - CEntury Art and beyond - Chapter Nineteen: Art from 1900 to 1919 - New Ways of looking - The Fauves and expressionism - The German expressionism - Kandinsky - Marc - Cubism - Picasso and barque: analytical and sybthetic cubism - Futurism - Abstract or non- Objective Art - Architecture - Chapter Twenty: Between the two World Wars - Dada and Surrealism - America and the Precisionist view - Welded metal: a Revolution in sculpture - Photography and modern movements - Constructivism, de stijl and the International style - Chapter Twenty One - Post- War to Post Modern - Abstract expressionism - European survivors - Post- Painterly abstraction - Jasper johns and robert rauschenberg - Pop Art - Photographic imagery - Minimal Art - Arte Povera - Body Art and Process Art - Earth and Land Art - Photo- Realism and new image painting - Modernism and Post- Modernism - Chapter Twenty Two: Into the third Millennium - Questioning modernism - Neo- Expressionism - Art as Identity - Post- Modern multiculturalism - Video and the Post- Medium Conition - Photo graphy and the construction of reality - Abjection - Function and Value - The New museums of Art - Art after Post- Modernism - Globalizations, sensation and spectacle - The Turn of the Millennium-

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